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I know there's some who don't understand graphs and/or don't like them, so feel free to ignore. This is a graph of the rolling 8 game form of the SC teams plotting percentage of points attained against the game number - not dates. I chose 8 as both McDowall and McCall have been in charge for 8 games. McCoist had 17 which is just over half. It seems not too bad a number for a 10 team league - 9 would be better. Of course the first seven games don't give valid data as it's less than 8 games but it's there for completeness. I've shaded the valid McCoist games in blue, McDowall in red and McCall in orange. Really only the last data point for McDowall and McCall is completely valid for them as it's the only one where all 8 games were under their command. If you count the number of lines above ours at any point you can see what placing we are compared to the other sides for the equivalent 8 games at that time - like a virtual table for the 8 games. You can see we're currently 3rd equal with Hibs behind Hearts and QotS under McCall. McCoist was consistently second until the last couple of games where he dropped to third and then third equal, and McDowall ended up fifth equal. You can see a dramatic loss of form when Ally resigned and a slow recovery under McCall. You can also see Hearts consistency till they won the league and Hibs improving a lot with time and then losing form in the last month. Falkirk and QotS are next most competitive teams with Raith popping up now an again and also Dumbarton having a couple of good spells. The graph is just presentation of true data and so is not biased one way or the other, and the only quibble can be the number of games to measure over, and I've explained the reasoning for 8 above. How it is interpreted is up to the viewer. Hopefully a few people will be interested. I've written this in HTML5 and it gets the data by copying and pasting the results from the BBC website. So it will work for any league they give results for - all the results can be chosen or just copy between any dates that are interesting. If anyone wants a graph for a different league, let me know.